We are looking for an experienced Business Product Owner to join the Digital Product Management team to accelerate the team's delivery of strategic projects. The role will manage the delivery of new features and workflows to enhance the Division's core platform and content tools. Duties of the role will include:

Manage the delivery of a set of new features to enhance the platform, coordinating development and ensuing process change with suppliers, the project team and internal stakeholders.
Build strong relationships with publishers, editors, and colleagues within central functions to ensure priorities are understood and delivery plans are aligned.
Represent customer and user needs so that the delivery team understands requirements and the customer context.
Monitor the delivery by suppliers and strategic partners, ensuring progress against agreed timescales is tracked and any changes are understood by stakeholders.
Collect and provide feedback on delivered features and changes, working in collaboration with Digital Product Managers, Product Designers and publishing colleagues.
Create and implement roll-out plans for your feature set and associated process changes and present them to colleagues (Product Managers and other Business Product Owners) and stakeholders, to ensure changes are understood and supported.
Develop training materials and documentation to support the product features and tools being delivered.
Provide knowledge transfer and training to impacted teams for new features and tools.
Work proactively to identify ways in which processes can be improved.
Ensure engagement, alignment and buy-in from the wider product and delivery teams through regular touch points such as quaterly planning, demos and Product communications

Proven success in a product owner role or a digital delivery role (product manager, project manager, business analyst, platform manager etc.), working with delivery teams.
Experience of working with Agile methodologies and tools.
Demonstrable experience of successfully embedding change.
Experience of planning and delivering continuous change and improvement in a digital product environment, including maintaining release plans.
Knowledge of how to define, test, and refine user journeys.
Skills in communication, networking and influencing within a matrix structure: to find a consensus and a way forward which balances needs.
Knowledge of the education and publishing landscape
Basic level of technical understanding, including software architectures, standards, development methods and practises.
Comfortable with utilising and interpreting data

We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days' holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.

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